But did you know: As Newsweek Media Group is being investigated, Newsweek fired top editors and reporters who were investigating their parent company’s finances (Daily Beast)
On Monday, Newsweek fired its editor in chief Bob Roe, executive editor Ken Li, reporters Celeste Katz and Josh Saul, and International Business Times editor Josh Keefe. Though no official reason was given for the firings, The Daily Beat reports that Li, Katz, Saul, and Keefe had all published stories recently that reported on Newsweek Media Group’s recent financial troubles. Plus, senior writer Matthew Cooper resigned on Monday. In his resignation letter, Cooper addressed Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad, saying: “This coup de grace comes at the end of a string of scandals and missteps during your tenure,” he wrote. “Leaving aside the police raid and harassment scandal — a dependent clause I never thought I would write — it’s the installation of editors, not Li and Roe, who recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, retweets over fairness, that leaves me most despondent not only for Newsweek but for other publications that don’t heed the lessons of this publication’s fall.”

+ “There used to be this concept of ‘putting up a paywall,’” Piano CEO Trevor Kaufman says. “That’s a very different activity from strategizing a successful subscription business from scratch. What we see more customers doing is bifurcating their businesses. We don’t see as many publishers saying ‘where I do put my paywall’ and more saying ‘what is a totally new offering that I can create and provide that my existing offering can promote and market? What is a totally new offering that has value and is worth paying for?’” (Nieman Lab)

‘The UX of why people hate their new job after three months’(Damon Kiesow, Medium)
The first few weeks of a new job are always exciting: “There are new people to meet, new projects to learn and new roles and responsibilities to master. Part of the intoxication of those early weeks is they are often the only time in our adult lives we are allowed to ask stupid questions and not have to pretend to know everything,” Damon Kiesow writes. But, inevitably, that honeymoon period ends, and people become unhappy with parts of their job. How can UX research help solve that problem? Kiesow suggests: “For new employees, the expectation we need to set is that while the initial learning curve is steep, the on-boarding process actually never ends nor does it move in a predictably straight line.” That includes finding ways to re-invest yourself in your job every few months, and preparing those you manage for this process.

How Trump’s ‘fake news’ attacks changed (and didn’t change) The New York Times(Wilson Quarterly)
When Trump posted a tweet just days after being elected president and denigrated The New York Times, “there was more on the line than the paper’s reputation or its stock price. The president was using The Times as an avatar for the news media in general, and, therefore, as a stand-in for the reality-based reporting that, for all its flaws, has provided so much of the factual foundation of America’s political discourse for so long,” Jim Rutenberg writes. Rutenberg explains how Trump’s attacks have changed the way NYT approaches its work — and the things Trump hasn’t changed. “One thing we’ve started to do is be more transparent. We’re going to let people know who our reporters are; we’re going to let them know where they are; we’re going to let people know what it takes to get a story,” executive editor Dean Baquet told Rutenberg.